Unique program fills gap for veterans

Written by Brooks Taylor
Friday, 30 August 2013 19:37

The young man maintained the watchful attitude of a soldier, quietly nodding at those who greeted him, all the while keeping his young charge – a 14 month old female golden retriever named Ruby – in check.

Tyler Craft doesn’t show it, but he’s a veteran of the Iraq war, “blown up,” as he describes it, in 2004. Craft is one of more than 60,000 veterans disabled in Iraq and Afghanistan; 300,000 diagnosed with post traumatic stress; and 5,000 who are amputees.

GreenTech on track

Written by Brooks Taylor
Friday, 30 August 2013 19:28

Local and state economic development officials remain confident that GreenTech Automotive will make good on its commitment to build cars in Tunica County by year’s end in 2014 – despite recent intense scrutiny by the national media of the company and its political connections.

“People have been on the payroll for over five years,” Tunica County Chamber of Commerce CEO and economic development foundation chief Lyn Arnold said in an interview August 2.

“Two important things to know: Charles Wang has been a constant, and the engineers have been the same.”